Arquitetura e espaço público do turismo e do lazer: discursos turísticos da cidade de Paris

• Autor(a) principal: Lúcia Isabel da Silva Pedro
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/80808
• topic: Artes; Arts

With the growing tourism industry the world economy has changed the course itsinvestment trends, transferring it from the industrial city to the cultural city. This change causedthe derivation of political concerns, which are now increasingly focusing on the urban andarchitectural progress in order to create attractions and tourism improvement. The cities wereredefined and public spaces began to welcome new cultural events. They are now seen as productsof consumption and the need of media coverage and consequent urban competitiveness breakforth, looking to burst the promotion of tourism. The architectural elements that contributed tothese new tourism strategies and dynamics were the cultural facilities - museums and art centersparticularly. By evolving from their classic configuration of instruction to the contemporaryconfiguration of persuasion, they see their development concentrated in their visual andsymbolic performances. Their new role will be to attract visitors by stimulating the consumptionthrough the seduction by the image. The consumable city and consumable museum are thenew assumptions of architectural interventions, and the marketing promotion is now one ofthe architect's new roles. The city of Paris dominated by the tourism industry is revealed as theobvious model of this new touristic era, with the Louvre Museum and the Georges PompidouNational Art and Cultural Centre the best examples of productions within these new modalities.